Monday, October 06, 2014
"Cancer Screening in Seniors Yields Few Benefits"
On the MedPageToday website, Charles Bankhead recently wrote about this:
"'A substantial proportion of the U.S. population with limited life expectancy received prostate, breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening that is unlikely to provide net benefit,' Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues concluded in an article published online in JAMA Internal Medicine."